{"id":4598,"date":"2015-04-21T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2015-08-27T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:37:00","slug":"episode-230-k-j-parker-and-the-history-of-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2015\/04\/21\/episode-230-k-j-parker-and-the-history-of-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 230: K J Parker and the history of a writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very special episode is a conversation with the superb and formerly mysterious K.J. Parker, whose newest work\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twoofswords.net\/\"><em>The Two of Swords<\/em><\/a><i>\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>begins serialization this week from Orbit, and whose\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/\" href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/store\/product_detail\/savages\">Savages\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>is due later this summer from Subterranean Press.<\/p>\n<div>We discuss the influence of writers as diverse as E.F. Benson, P.G. Wodehouse, Mercedes Lackey, and C.J. Cherryh, the reason there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much overt magic in Parker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worlds, the freedom offered by fantasy over straight historical fiction, the relative advantages of novellas vs. novels, where all that wonderful dialogue comes from, and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof course\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho K.J. Parker really is&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very special episode is a conversation with the superb and formerly mysterious K.J. Parker, whose newest work\u00c2\u00a0The Two of Swords\u00c2\u00a0begins serialization this week from Orbit, and whose\u00c2\u00a0Savages\u00c2\u00a0is due later this summer from Subterranean Press. We discuss the influence of writers as diverse as E.F. Benson, P.G. Wodehouse, Mercedes Lackey, and C.J. Cherryh, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2015\/04\/21\/episode-230-k-j-parker-and-the-history-of-a-writer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 230: K J Parker and the history of a writer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-31","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}